Graduate Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor

About the role

This position is located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) - Veterans Health Administration (VHA) - VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6) - Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center (HVAMC) located at the North Battlefield CBOC - under the Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences (MH&BS) Service Line.

Responsibilities

• Independently performs case/care management functions and outreach - identifying and screening patients for psychosocial needs
• Possesses the knowledge and ability to independently implement treatment modalities - provide counseling or psychotherapy for individuals, families, and groups
• Independently conducts psychosocial assessments
• Develops treatment plans in collaboration with the Veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team if applicable
• Possesses the skills to offer psychosocial interventions and measures outcomes to interventions
• Coincides community-based services - including information and referral for additional services from other VA programs, other government programs, and community agency programs
• Independently identifies high-risk patients and provides crisis intervention services - seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint - coordinates family conferences and serves as liaison to family members
• Provides support for those Veterans on the High Risk for Suicide list
• Develops patient education materials/modules and assists with Veteran Peer and Family activities as assigned
• Independently provides consultation services to other staff regarding the psychosocial needs of Veterans and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and adherence to treatment plan
• Able to evaluate own practice through professional peer review - case conferences and other organizational means
• Able to communicate effectively - both orally and in writing - with people from varied backgrounds
• Serves as Mental Health Treatment Coordinator for the patients on assigned team
• Independently coordinates with other services to include - but not limited to Primary Care - Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) - MH Connect Team - Inpatient Psychiatry Team - and/or Substance Use Disorder Outpatient Program to ensure Veterans needs are met

Requirements

• Experience - Education - and Licensure: At least one year of post-master's or post-doctoral degree mental health counseling experience (VA or non-VA experience) and must be licensed to practice at the independent practice level and demonstrate the KSAs below
• Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities: Ability to make professional evaluations - decisions - and recommendation for treatment planning and implementation; Advanced knowledge and mastery of the fundamentals of the counseling process which includes defining patient/family problems and maintaining an effective counseling relationship; Ability to provide subject matter consultation to colleagues and trainees on the counseling process within various specialty areas; Requires independent judgment and skill; Ability to establish goals/treatment through a collaborative process with the patient utilizing advanced counseling skills - including evidenced-based practices - screening - and psychosocial assessment; Demonstrates sensitivity to diversity and possesses multicultural counseling skills; Demonstrates the ability to use a wide variety of individual - group - or familial counseling interventions; Demonstrates the ability to develop and facilitate psychotherapy and psycho-education groups that include life skills - family support - and community integration; Demonstrates the ability to use the current DSM in making diagnoses and formulation of treatment goals and application of appropriate clinical intervention using professional counseling practices; Demonstrates the ability to fully utilize the current DSM in making diagnoses and formulation of treatment goals and application of appropriate clinical intervention using professional counseling practices

Qualifications

• Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (Full Performance Level): Experience - Education - and Licensure; Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities

Benefits

• Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary.

Pay

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases

Schedule

• Work Schedule: 8:00am-4:30pm Monday-Friday

Other Information

• Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
• Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
• Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases
• Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary.
• Functional Statement #: 000000
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized